Phaser, Cordova and text input on Android

[mazoku 33]

I make a game/app for Android with Phaser that have to save images. The problem is that I want to make the user write the name of the file. What is the best way for this?

[icp 66]

https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-dialogs/

navigator.notification.prompt

function onPrompt(results) {
    alert("You selected button number " + results.buttonIndex + " and entered " + results.input1);
}

navigator.notification.prompt(
    'Please enter your name',  // message
    onPrompt,                  // callback to invoke
    'Registration',            // title
    ['Ok','Exit'],             // buttonLabels
    'Jane Doe'                 // defaultText
);

 

[mattstyles 640]

Native dialog sounds fine, although not sure it can accept user input beyond button clicks (maybe it can, example above doesn't show that).

What's wrong with a DOM input field? Pretty sure there are a couple of Phaser Input modules kicking around that fake this in a more Phaser-idiomatic way as well if you wanted to stay within the Canvas and keyboard event listener realm.

[bruno_ 63]

Are you sure you want the user to choose the file name?

Its not very intuitive on mobile, I don't have any app that makes me choose a file name. They just generate a name for me so I don't have to care.

If you really want to make it, don't forget to validate that the entered input is valid for a file name.

[icp 66]

1 hour ago, mattstyles said:

Native dialog sounds fine, although not sure it can accept user input beyond button clicks (maybe it can, example above doesn't show that).

What's wrong with a DOM input field? Pretty sure there are a couple of Phaser Input modules kicking around that fake this in a more Phaser-idiomatic way as well if you wanted to stay within the Canvas and keyboard event listener realm.

Yes, it can accept text input. You can also use the native keyboard plugin. Of course, there are multiple ways to do this but that's the Cordova way.